Report for the year ending 31st December, 1943 - Archaeologia Cantiana

a series of photographs of Trottiscliffe Church together with elaborate measurements made at the request of Canon G. M. Livett, by the donor, Canon F. F. Key; Archaeologia Cantiana (8 Vols.) (presented by Mr. G. C. Bennett), and 16 Vols. (presented by Mr. Henry S. Gunnis).
   The Accounts show a satisfactory result, due mainly to the wartime reduction in content of the 1942 volume of Archaeologia Cantiana. A new volume, similarly limited in content, is on the point of issue to members.
   It had been confidently hoped that 1943 would see the publication by the Records Branch of Volume XVI of Kent Records, The Register of Daniel Rough, but the difficult conditions under which the General Editor, the Special Editor, and the printers alike have been working made publication during the year impossible. It is, however, expected that the volume will be issued during the late Summer of 1944, and the Records Committee hope that subscribers will find the interest and scope of the volume some compensation for the delay in its publication.
   The records preservation work continues unabated, and still remains, in present circumstances, one of the most important sides of the work of the Records Branch.
   The Chief Engineer of the Southern Railway reported in May, 1943, that "recently a small cavity showed itself in the 4 ft. of the Up Hastings branch near the East Yard signal box at Tonbridge Station. On examination it was found that under the line was an old brick chamber, approximately 12 ft. by 8 ft., which it is thought formed part of the old St. Mary Magdalene Priory. Unfortunately in the interests of safety, it became necessary for me to have the cavity filled in."

   A plan of the site and chamber has been received by the Society.
   Part of the brick walling of a Roman building has been uncovered on the site of the gas works at Snodland. Further particulars will, it is hoped, be available at a later date.
   CORRECTION. In the Report for 1942, page 2, paragraph numbered (5), line 3, insert "to" before "just."
   The site of a medieval habitation has been disclosed at Monkton Marshes, Thanet, on an alluvial mound shown on the 1" Ordnance Survey map, 19 ft. O.D. and ¼ mile N.N.W. of Plucks Gutter on the Stour. Mr. P. Brachi of Walton on Thames, who had noticed that digging was taking place on the site, visited it and found pottery sherds, many oyster and mussel and whelk shells; with chalk and patches of burnt clay. The sherds are undoubtedly medieval and similar in character to much of the l3th-l4th century material from the site of that date at Stonar. I have visited the site. A fuller report will be submitted later (Mr. W. P. D. Stebbing).
   The Council have been asked to commend to the generosity of members an appeal that has recently been made for funds to preserve and make suitable for its intended use as an almshouse the timber framed house called High House, Lenham, stated to have been built in 1621 by Anthony Honywood as a residence for the governor of the Honywood charity. The appeal was printed in the Kentish Express of 2nd July, 1943, together with